During Pride month, Amazon’s affinity group for the LGBT community glamazon hosted celebrations around the globe – including Pride parades, raising the flag over our HQ and even helping with an engagement at a Pride parade.

On Monday, July 10th, our corporate office in Cambridge, MA, rung in the start of Prime Day with the announcement of Amazon’s continued growth in the city of Boston. The event included remarks from Boston Mayor Marty Walsh and Massachusetts House Speaker Robert DeLeo, and we announced our third corporate office in the Commonwealth will be opening in the Seaport District.

Back in the early 1990s, years before career opportunities brought her to Seattle and ultimately to Amazon, Ana Pinto da Silva bounded out of college, full of fire to put her architecture degree to use. Sure, there was a recession, and it was a miserable one, but Pinto da Silva was determined to be an exception. Instead, she was a temp, she sold shoes, she did demolition for a construction crew, and she designed sets for local theater companies at night.